Beginning Programming in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, Third Edition

Hour 10. Having Fun with Programming

Now is the time to sit back and have some fun with JavaScript. Sure, programming is fun in itself, and you already know how easy and enjoyable writing programs with JavaScript can be. Nevertheless, there is more you can do with JavaScript than writing data-processing programs for business and engineering. You can also use JavaScript to jazz up your websites.

The material you master in this hour gives you the framework for adding pizzazz to your programs. You will get an idea of how game programmers do their jobs. You will learn some fundamental concepts that you need in order to write programs that capture a user’s attention.

The highlights of this hour include:

Rotating images on a page

Adding interactivity ...